Mirko Tobias Schäfer / Assistant Professor
University of Utrecht Department for Media and Culture Studies
Speaking of Technology, Dreaming of Society. Employing Metaphors, Images, and Associations for a rhetoric of Progress. Paper presented at ICA 2009, May 22: Chicago.
Date October 2008 / Category Lectures
Participation Inside? User Activities between Design and Appropriation. Paper presented at IR 9.0, Copenhagen: October 16 2008.
Heterogeneous and hybrid relations in online sociality, presentation at New Network Theory, Amsterdam, June 29 2007.
Date April 2007 / Category Lectures
With Bernhard Rieder: Hybrid Foam. Social Structure before Network and Community,
Paper presented at the BSA Annual Conference 2007, London, April 13 2007.
with Hans Bernhard: Subversion als Systemstabilisator. Zur Ambivalenz sogenannter subversiver Strategien.
Paper presented at Subversionen Tagung, Hans Böckler Stiftung, July 16 2006, Edenkoben (Germany)
See the presentation.
Date April 2009 / Category Lectures
Leech & Fill. Explicit and implicit user participation in online data collections. Paper presented at Media in Transition 6, MIT, Boston: April 25 2009.
Date October 2008 / Category Lectures
Innovation als Resultat der Aneignung von Medientechnologie, paper presented at the annual conference of the Gesellschaft für Medienwissenschaft, Bochum October 2 2008.
Date April 2007 / Category Lectures
Revisiting the case of interactive audiences and the user as producer. Paper presented at Media in Transition 5, MIT, Boston, MA, April 27 2007.
Date September 2006 / Category Lectures
The in-between of software, hardware and user communities.
Paper presented at CRESC conference 2006, Oxford (UK), September 8 2006.
Metainformation as Collective Production.
Paper presented at Paris Utrecht Mini Symposium (PUMS), Paris, May 19th 2006.
PUMS 2006.